How did you get started?

My darling wife led me down the "camping" road. When we were dating in 1972, her mother allowed me to accompany them on the first trip of the year. My wife's mother was an avid camper and camped most weekends when the weather would allow. We went to a local state park, in a truck camper, and proceeded to set up. It was the very first trip of the year and the camper had been in storage all winter. My future mother in law started the refrigerator on propane. A bird's nest in the flue caught the camper on fire! Not a great introduction to the world of camping. The camper was ruined and no camping took place that weekend.

A year later, we married, and with the very last of our wedding cash, bought a tent, and some supplies for camping. As is the case with many camping couples, we “upgraded” as time went on. We had a series of tents, a truck camper, a pop up camper, and four different travel trailers during our working life. Each unit was a little bigger and more complex.

So I started camping to be close to my wife. After 42 years of marriage, I still want to close to her.

We now full time.

When our kids were little we camped in a tent, graduating to rental pop-up trailers. Then in 2003 (after the kids had grown and left the nest) my wife saw a small TT parked in front of a house on her commute and became obsessed with how "cute" it was. I was dead set against it and towing anything. She kept after it and eventually I decided to give in and take a look at some small TTs. We bought a new 19T4 Pioneer and fell in love with it and camping in general. We traded up to a Cougar 243RKS TT in 2006. Some health issues intervened and I reluctantly sold our beloved TT in 2010. I just couldn't watch it deteriorate as I couldn't keep it up. Last fall, as my health improved, we re-entered RV life with our 2008 Winnebago Aspect and are enjoying the heck out of it. We are looking forward to longer trips in the years to come. There is an inner peace that descends over our souls whenever we enter a new or familiar campsite or just enjoy the journey.

Plain and simple for us......... the love of warmer climates. We bought the RV for the purpose of snowbirding. Wanted to make sure it was paid for by the time retirement came around. Almost there! But, in the meantime, we needed to get out with the RV to learn and practice and came to enjoy it more than we thought.

Boy Scouts.

I fly r/c airplanes and travel to different fun flys , I would stay in motels and it was a pain to pack up and go to the motel the next morning go back and unpack just to fly , I noticed the rv people had a private bathroom, kitchen and did not have to pack and unpack every day, so I bought a pilgrim M190RB, to haul the planes and to stay in , the wife wanted to go camping so we did and before long we had a pilgrim 241 BHSS, 5 years later it was a Montana 3750FL fiver , now it is just me the dog and a bullet 207RBS

Like Lessmore, I started when I was about 6, tent camping with my parents. First in the nearby Smoky Mountains, and in a couple of years, all the way to Custer, S.D. towing a borrowed homemade teardrop trailer. Round trip from Cincinnati in 3 weeks.
I still vividly remember bits and pieces. Like stopping in a drug store to buy more 6-12 mosquito repellant. They didn't carry it or any other brand. No standing water in the black hills, so there was no place for them to breed. I doubt that's true anymore.
I also remember stopping by the side of the road to watch them making a movie starring Charlton Heston as he led a wagon train out west. Mostly, I remember walking out on the rocks in the Badlands and nearly stepping in a crevice. Might have been the end of me if my Dad hadn't caught my arm. The best was camping in Custer State Park. The mountain goats would climb down the steep rocks that humans couldn't even stand on without falling, and eat soda crackers out of my hand.
Strange that I still remember any of it since it was nearly 65 years ago. Also strange what I remember so vividly.

I have been camping for so long I cannot remember not camping, when I was small we slept on the ground on a quilt by the fire, no tent no stove, we cooked over fire or smudge pot. I naturally camped later on as it seemed the normal thing to do. I still camp, and canoe camp too
sometimes as long as 14 days on the water camping every night. I also was a long distance hiker until my knees and back gave out so I treat the canoe as a backpack.

I always had a fascination with RV's. When I was growing up my friend and I made Lego RV's and often walked down to Cornishs RV and played in them. That was in the late 70's and early 80's. I never lost that fascination and purchased our first one three years ago and couldn't be happier. Wife now wishes we had done this this ten years earlier.

Boy Scout tents. In laws cabin. DW and I bought a TT. So we could go different places.

My parents camped from the time I was about 6 years old. Our family started off with a tent for a couple of years, till we were flooded out one night. Next year (I was about 10) we had a new 15 foot travel trailer and it was trailers always...after the first one.

We started camping in the middle 1950's.